2nd fear period

It's been suggested that Grey might be going through his second fear period. I think they're right. He's started going a lot more nutso in the car. Also he's been lunging at passing trucks, 4x4s and lorries when on the lead. So back to basics for socialising for a while then. Either that or he's going to turn into a devil dog!

Today we went for a huge walk after heading out with an OS map. Was really nice, if a little flat terrain wise. There's only so much of fields you can get enthused by. Grey came back on all his recall whistles so that's still going well. He came back at speed from ages away. He met a few swans - didn't bark, just looked. A horse, again, just looked. Yay! He had to be put on the Gencon for the last leg of the walk which he hated because we had to go along a road and I was with L so no chance to LLW train.

Ran through some training when we got home. Lead training down the hallway to a plate of chicken. Tight lead we go backwards, loose lead forwards and if he carried on he got the chicken. he did really well. By the 9th and 10th times he loose lead walked all the way.

Then some sitstays. Me just standing in front of him and increasing the count by 1 sec at a time while he was in a sit. We got to 14 secs. Had to restart the count twice to 1 because he offered me a down twice at about 5 secs.